(price-clipped) [nice copy, tight and clean, very light spotting on top edge; jacket has a couple of tiny closed tears, small surface-peeled spot on front panel where somebody (not me!) apparently started to remove the foil "guaranteed binding" label (which crosses the spine and extends about an inch into the front panel) but then thought better of it]. "In the Fourth Century B.C., Alexander of Macedon was vying with Darius III of Persia for mastery of the wo... View more info

[front hinge cracked, otherwise a solid copy with minimal shelfwear, some fading to cloth at top edge and base of spine, offsetting to endpapers in gutters, one-time owner's name and date of original purchase at top of ffep; jacket has a small ragged tear at top rear hinge, light edgewear and a couple of tiny nicks here and there]. "This is an amazing novel of the thrilling and little-known first act in Napoleon's marvelous career -- seen exclusively through the eye... View more info

[solid copy, minimal shelfwear, light age-toning to page edges; jacket missing front flap, edgeworn, ragged tears at top spine corners, a number of creases, a little fading at spine]. Historical novel set in the Middle East, against the backdrop of the last two decades of the Ottoman Empire (roughly 1908-1922). From the Preface: "This gripping narrative, woven around intriguing and authentic international happenings, unfolds in the most ancient metropolis in the his... View more info

(no dust jacket) [worn but still solid copy, binding intact, exterior wear/soiling, gilt lettering on spine dulled but still readable, minor bumping at all extremities, some discoloration to endpapers and a bit of soiling to a few pages]. (The Academy Edition of International Authors) Series (color frontispiece) "A narrative of stirring events in the career of one of the numerous pretenders to the throne of Russia that arose after the strong rule had passed of Ivan ... View more info

(price-clipped) [nice clean solid copy, with just a bit of shelfwear to the bottom edge, attractive private-library bookplate on front pastedown; jacket is edgeworn, with tiny tears and minor paper loss at several corners, a little creasing, 2-inch tape-repaired closed tear and associated creasing at bottom of front panel, vertical creasing to front flap, a few nicks to edges of rear panel]. Two of the land campaigns of the War of 1812 furnish the setting for this novel.... View more info

(no dust jacket) [solid enough book with binding intact, but should be considered a reading copy only due to external wear and bumping, an unsightly beverage-ring scar on the front cover (see scan), and internal tape repait to a page that had been ripped in half]. Uncommon novel, originally published in France in 1921. It's "historical fiction" in a sense, but as the New York Times described it in 1922, "it is not a history of Salt Lake City as occupied by t... View more info

[nice copy, minimal shelfwear, faint dust-darkening to top edge; jacket rubbed/edgeworn, mild soiling]. The author's first novel, about "Lucy Pitt, [a] Latin mistress at a fashionable boarding school for young ladies [who takes] the coach north to Manchester, a journey not to be undertaken lightly in the year 1793 by an unescorted female. But Lucy was an independent young woman, with an adventurous spirit and had lived and travelled in India. However, nothing in h... View more info

(price-clipped) [solid copy, a trace of soiling to top and bottom edges of covers, light foxing to fore-edge; jacket moderately worn at extremities, rear panel somewhat dirty, minor discoloration at inside edges of flaps]. "Only a man who knows the Massachusetts and New York countryside intimately could write so absorbing and exciting a book as [this one]. The story moves against a glowing and detailed background which completely transports the reader to the time and... View more info

[nice clean copy with only minimal shelfwear, vintage bookplate affixed to verso of ffep with yellowing scotch tape; jacket is bright and attractive despite some edgewear, a one-inch missing piece at top of spine (partially affecting first word in title) and several old tape-repairs along bottom hinges and at top and bottom edges of rear panel]. (line drawings) Historical fiction for juvenile readers, "a lively story of courage and patriotism" about a 16-year-ol... View more info

[minor wear at spine ends, light dust-soiling to top edge, one-time owner's signature on ffep; jacket worn and wrinkled along top and bottom edges, various small tears and shallow chipping, unobtrusive tape-repair to base of spine]. "Maris, the chief character in the novel, is playmate and then lady-in-waiting to the Princess Mary Tudor, and the action takes place partly in the reign of Henry VIII, then of Edward VI, of Mary Tudor, and the first year of Queen Elizab... View more info

[light shelfwear, very slight fraying to bottom front corner; jacket slightly chipped at top of spine, minor soiling to rear panel, a couple of short closed edge-tears]. Novel set in Mexico during the period prior to the Mexican Revolution, concerning the impact on a small mountain village in Mexico when the gringos arrive, in particular on the ultimately exploitative relationship between an American mine owner and the locals who work in his mine: "Finally came the ... View more info

[minimal shelfwear, mild tanning of pages, two previous owners' signatures on ffep (plus an annotation from one about when and where he bought the book); jacket mildly soiled, a couple of small closed tears, chipping with a little paper loss at both ends of spine]. Vanity-press novel about the exploits of Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys during the American Revolution. The author (shown examining his horse's teeth in the rear jacket photo) is described as once hav... View more info

[heavily bumped at top front hinge, otherwise a good solid copy, internally clean except for discoloration (browning) to endpapers and pastedowns; jacket moderately edgeworn, dime-sized piece missing at top left-hand corner of front panel, small chip at top rear hinge]. Historical novel of Texas during the period of Mexican rule. The book's hero, Blazeley Tyler, "was a man peculiar to this era, and of the stuff of which heroes are made. But there were women in Blaz... View more info

(price-clipped) [solid copy, moderate shelfwear, some soiling to top edge, long diagonal trim at top of half-title page (possibly to remove previous owner info); jacket mildly edgeworn]. (maps by the author) Civil War novel for young readers, about a young Union prisoner who escapes, with a friend, from a Confederate jail in South Carolina, and sets out on a long arduous journey to his home in Connecticut. View more info

[solid copy, some wear to the lower extremities (slight fraying at bottom corners and base of spine), light dust-soiling to top edge; jacket has minor tears at a couple of corners, small nick at fore-edge of front panel, slight paper loss around top of spine (no text affected), moderate soiling]. Historical romance set against the backdrop of the American war with Tripoli (1801-1805). "The infant American Republic had no navy with which to fight pirates at the begi... View more info

[nice clean copy, spine slightly turned but no significant wear; dust jacket lightly scuffed at spine, faint edgewear, rear panel shows light soiling, a couple of small closed tears at top & bottom edges]. Historical romance set in Elizabethan England, presenting an alternate version of the story of Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall. View more info

[nice clean book, minor age-toning to top page edges, but no significant wear; jacket slightly faded at spine, with minor wear along top and bottom edges, a few itsy-bitsy tears, light browning at edges of jacket flaps]. The author's second historical novel (in what would later be known as "The Tarn Trilogy"), set in 13th-century France. This book re-encounters "Wolf of Foix, the searching young idealist," who is obsessed with avenging the death of his p... View more info

(purple cloth, no dust jacket) [clean and tight, top 3/4" of spine cloth faded, tiny brown spot on bottom edge]. (color frontispiece, halftone illustrations) "In Vindication of the Memory of the Much-Maligned Katharine Howard." In addition to the color frontispiece, there are four half-tone illustrations in the text, and both endpapers are a half-tone of Hampton Court. View more info

[solid, good-looking copy, light browning/soiling to page edges; jacket a bit edgeworn but still very attractive, marred only by some paper loss at top of spine (losing about one-third of "Son") extending to the top corner of the rear panel]. "Lije Smith is the illegitimate son of Nancy Smith, who comes to the river town of Delta City some time after the Civil War. Her lover has deserted her in New Orleans, and she gives herself up to the task of making a ma... View more info

[moderate shelfwear, old sale price stamped on ffep, faint foxing on fore-edge; jacket water-damaged (especially along spine, which is faded, peeled, and has a couple of holes in it), internally stained with some bleed-through on rear panel and left edge of front panel; about the best that can be said for the jacket is that at least the front panel is complete and only moderately stained/ soiled]. As with many "write-what- you-know" vanity-press novels, this one ... View more info